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WTB: 4MB 30pin SIMM 60ns or 70ns preferred but willing to consider 80ns

You're funny it also states systems were selling with 8megs already installed.

Good point, I wonder how spot prices compared to contract prices back then, though I was specifically referring to the sub-$1000 market that probably still mostly used 486s for example.
 
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$400 for 4megs stated on that page does seem a bit high though. I recall paying that much for 4mb of sipps for my original 286/16 in 1990-91. When someone gave me a 486 mobo with 4megs of ram I just desoldered the pins off and used them as 30pin simms.
 
$400 for 4megs stated on that page does seem a bit high though. I recall paying that much for 4mb of sipps for my original 286/16 in 1990-91.

Yea, the source I quoted put the price at $11.50 for 4Mbit chips at the beginning of 1996, which means $100 would make more sense.
 
$400 for 4megs stated on that page does seem a bit high though. I recall paying that much for 4mb of sipps for my original 286/16 in 1990-91. When someone gave me a 486 mobo with 4megs of ram I just desoldered the pins off and used them as 30pin simms.

Sounds about right. I remember I bought a 486-33 in 1992 and the std. price for RAM was about $100/MB.
 
Looking in my stash, I have four Evergreen CAPserver4xx (425 and 440) boards (Ti 486SXLC2 chips on a 386SX SBC, essentially), all but one with four 4MBx1 Parity 30-pin SIMMs, and one with two. So that's 14 of them. As my dad would have said, 'they're not for sale, but they can be bought.' Well, a few of them at least. I may have more, but my big box of SIMMs (25-30 pounds) is stored deep in a stack right now, so I don't know. Most of those are 256k and 1MB for the 30-pin sticks, and 1MB, 4MB, and 8MB for the 72-pin.
 
Thanks everyone. I was able to get my hands on 40 sticks of 70ns FM Parity 30pin SIMMs. That should hopefully last me for a very long time....
 
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